FELONY IN HIS HOUSE Episode 6 Sarah proceeded in her story, when i was in my final year in secondary school i met this guy Benson he was invited to my village by one of his friends for our yearly masquarade festival. he was very handsome, he promised he was going to marry me as soon as i write my final paper he also said he was going to take me to abuja to futher my education, i was madly in love with Benson, my mum advice to stay away from him since he is not from my village and nobody knows his family but i turned deaf ear, we were the best couple in the village, my friends envied me then because i never lacked anything. i was on top of the world. two months after the festival he refused to leave his friends left him and returned home, he said he was waiting for me to write my exams so we can leave together, he lodged in an hotel i was always going there to see him most times i spend the night with him. it happened when i told him i missed my period he was all over he carried me and said i have him a man, Folake i was very happy, he ask me not to tell anyone yet that he wants to make preparations on how he was going to see my parents. i waited for some weeks but he was not forth-coming, i asked him what was taking him so long to come and see my parents, he told me he was financially down that beside my tummy is not yet protuding that nobody is aware of my pregnancy, i was already in my second month then. but to m surprise he was still living large he always buy drinks and bush meat for people whenever he is drinking, he was a free giver and very populär in my village. my mum started observing me in the third month she threaten to take me to the hospital if i dont tell her the truth. I ran quickly to the hotel to tell Benson what my mother said, he sat down and stared at me i shouted at him, are you deaf? my mother is threatening to take me to the hospital and she said if she discovered i am pregnant she will kill me, i said to him. Sarah, we are going to elope, he told me calmly. WHAT? i exclamied, elope for what?everybody in this village knows you are the only one am dating and you are up to the task why do you want us to run away, i asked him with tears in my eyes. Sarah, you see you are an igbo girl and i know the custom of your people, if i decide to see your parents they will ask me to start getting ready for introduction, engagement,traditional marriage,court marriage&church marriage and you know all this cost money i dont have such money on me now, he told me. My love,he said while holding my hands you deserve all these but the problem is money i think we should elope to abuja i will get back to work and gather enough money after that we can come back to see your parents i dont want to put you to shame my dear, he said. but why dont you come and see them first my parents are not after material things they can give us their blessings privately without inviting people then we can go to abuja as a couple, i told him. Sarah, do you want your friends to mock you? he asked do you want them to say your husband to be cannot afford a proper marriage for you? common you know how we have boasted to these people,beside i cannot marry you without my parents consent, when we get to abuja i will raise money i will send for my parents and we will all come back here for our marriage, please dear try and understand me. I decide to follow him because i could not bear the shame of been pregnant without a husband. when are we leaving i asked him with tears flowing freely from my eyes, you dont have to cry in the next six months we will be properly married. we are going to leave first thing tomorrow morning go home and pack your things, dont tell anybody about this, dont worry we are going to surprise them in the next six months you are going to be Mrs Sarah Benson properly now be a good girl go home i will be waiting for you at Godswill motor park by six in the morning,he held me tightly and kissed my forehead. i bade him good night and went home, i could not sleep that night i quickly arranged my clothes in my bag i sat down and was watching the time praying for dawn. By 5:00am i woke up i quickly took my bath i picked up my bag i ran out of my fathers compound without looking back i took a bike to Godswill motor park, when i got there i could not find Benson what was keeping him so long i wondered, the first batch of bus we were suppose to board was about to move i tried his number it was not connecting, i waited till 9:00am but Benson did not turn up i was frantic and decide to go and check him in the hotel, when i got there they told me Benson have lodged out last night. i asked the receptionist if she knows who i was talking about, she said yes that he even gave her 1000 naira when he was leaving, i was confused the lady told me she thought i was aware because she saw me crying last night when i left the hotel she thought i was crying because Benson was leaving. I could not cry, i summoned courage and went back to my fathers house, my parents were bittered my father refused talking to me, i became the black sheep of the family, for six months i suffered the pains of pregnancy, i laboured in pains, Folake i nearly lost my life during the child birth. i gave birth to a baby girl. i thought my parents were going to stop bothering me after the birth of my child but they made the house unbearable for me when my child was five months old i ran away from the village and came to lagos to look for work i just want to erase my past. i have been in lagos now for six years Folake i dont want you to be decieved the way Benson decieved me that is why i am telling you my story, said Sarah. Sarah i never knew you went through all these, i said while holding her hands am so sorry, i consoled her. Its okay, life is full of lessons, i have learnt mine, she said i wont fall a victim i assured her, i pray you dont she told me. How is Mrs bintu, she asked. oh! she travelled, i have some work to do inside Sarah i will see you tomorrow. Alright take care good night, we both part ways. when i got inside i was sad about what she told me, i prayed never to experince such in my life that is Sarah and i am folake, after all my Lucky is not her Benson nothing was going to happen to me, i waved her story aside and went to bed.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:08:49 +0000
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